Palestinian and Arab/Muslim Terror attacks in Israel - 1994-2000

Palestinian and Arab/Muslim Terror attacks - 1994-2000

Major Palestinian and Muslim Terrorist Attacks against Israelis From the Oslo Accords to September
2000.

The Oslo accords were supposed to mark the cessation of terror attacks against Israel, but they did
not. Instead terror activity intensified, if anything, often with the help of the Palestinian authorities who were
supposed to be enforcing the peace. In 1996 the Palestinian Authority helped to instigate the bloody "tunnel riots" and
in May of 2000, they instigated riots with the participation of PA police, even while supposedly negotiating peace with
Israel.

The most diabolical claim perhaps, is that Palestinian terror began in response to the terror attack by Baruch
Goldstein in Hebron, or to Israeli closures in the territories. The terror attacks commenced when the Oslo declaration
of principles was signed. Goldstein's massacre was in part a reaction to numerous fatal attacks.

Sep 24 93 - Yigal Vaknin was stabbed to death in an orchard near the trailer home where he lived near the
village of Basra. A squad of the HAMAS's Iz a-Din al Kassam claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 9 93 - Dror Forer and Aran Bachar were murdered by terrorists in Wadi Kelt in the Judean Desert. The
Popular Front and the Islamic Jihad 'Al-Aqsa Squads' each publicly claimed responsibility.

Oct 24 93 - Two IDF soldiers, Staff Sgt. (res.) Ehud Rot, age 35, and Sgt. Ilan Levi, age 23, were killed by a
HAMAS Iz a-Din al Kassam squad. The two entered a Subaru with Israeli license plates outside a Jewish settlement in the
Gaza Strip, whose passengers were apparently terrorists disguised as Israelis. Following a brief struggle, the soldiers
were shot at close range and killed. Hamas publicly claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 29 93 - Chaim Mizrahi, resident of Beit-El, was kidnapped by three terrorists from a poultry farm near
Ramallah. He was murdered and his body burned. Three Fatah members were convicted of the murder on July 27, 1994.

Nov 9 93 - Salman 'Id el-Hawashla, age 38, an Israeli Bedouin of the Abu Rekaik tribe who was driving a car
with Israeli plates, was killed by three armed men driving a truck hijacked from the Gaza municipality, in a deliberate
head-on collision.

Nov 17 93 - Sgt. 1st Cl. Chaim Darina, age 37, was stabbed by a Gazan terrorist while seated at the cafeteria
at the Nahal Oz road block at the entrance to the Gaza Strip. The perpetrator was apprehended. The Islamic Jihad claimed
responsibility for the murder.

Dec 1 93 - Shalva Ozana, age 23, and Yitzhak Weinstock, age 19, were shot to death by terrorists from a
moving vehicle, while parked on the side of the road to Ramallah because of engine trouble. Weinstock died of his wounds
the following morning. Iz a-Din al Kassam claimed responbility for the attack, stating that it was carried out in
retaliation for the killing by Israeli forces of Imad Akel, a wanted HAMAS leader in Gaza.

Dec 5 93 - David Mashrati, a reserve soldier, was shot and killed by a terrorist attempting to board a bus on
route 641 at the Holon junction. The Islamic Jihad Shekaki gorup claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 6 93 - Mordechai Lapid and his son Shalom Lapid, age 19, were shot to death by terrorists near Hebron.
HAMAS publicly claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 22 93 - Eliahu Levin and Meir Mendelovitch were killed by shots fired at their car from a passing vehicle
in the Ramallah area. HAMAS claimed responsibility.

Dec 23 93 - Anatoly Kolisnikov, an Ashdod resident employed as a relief watchman at a construction site there,
was stabbed to death while on duty.

Dec 24 93 - Lieut.Col. Meir Mintz, commander of the IDF special forces in the Gaza area, was shot and killed
by terrorists in an ambush on his jeep at the T-junction in Gaza. The HAMAS Iz a-Din al Kassam squads publicly claimed
responsibility for the attack.

Dec 31 93 - Chaim Weizman and David Bizi were found murdered in a Ramle apartment. ID cards of two Gaza
residents were found in the apartment, together with a leaflet of the Popular Front 'Red Eagle' group, claiming
responsibility for the murder.

Jan 12 94 - Moshe Becker of Rishon Le-Zion was stabbed to death by three Palestinian employees while working
in his orchard. The Popular Front claimed responsibility for the murder.

Jan 14 94 - Grigory Ivanov was stabbed to death by a terrorist in the industrial zone at the Erez junction,
near the Gaza Strip. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 9 94 - Ilan Sudri, a taxi driver, was kidnapped and murdered while returning home from work. The Islamic
Jihad Shekaki group sent a message to the news agencies claiming responsibility for the murder.

Feb 10 94 - Naftali Sahar, a citrus grower, was murdered by blows to his head. His body was found in his
orchard near Kibbutz Na'an.

Feb 13 94 - Noam Cohen, age 28, member of the General Security Service, was shot and killed in an ambush on
his car. Two of his colleagues who were also in the vehicle suffered moderate injuries. HAMAS claimed responsibility for
the attack.

Feb 17 94 - Yuval Golan, stabbed on December 29, 1993 by a terrorist near Adarim in the Hebron area, died of
his wounds.

Feb 19 94 - Zipora Sasson, resident of Ariel and five months pregnant, was killed on the trans-Samaria highway
in an ambush by shots fired at her car. The terrorists were members of HAMAS.

Feb 25 94 - Sam Eisenstadt, age 80, was assaulted with an axe in the center of Kfar Saba. He died of his
wounds shortly afterwards.

Mar 23 94 - Victor Lashchiver, employed as a guard at the Income Tax offices in East Jerusalem, was shot and
killed near Damascus Gate on his way to work. The Popular Front claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 29 94 - Yitzhak Rothenberg, age 70 of Petah Tikva, was attacked on a construction site by two residents of
Khan Yunis by axe blows to the head. He died several days later of his wounds. The murderers, apprehended the next day,
stated that they carried out the attack in order to clear themselves of suspected collaboration with the Israeli
authorities.

Mar 31 94 - Yosef Zandani, age 28 of Bnei Ayish, near Gedera, was found murdered in his apartment. Near the
body was a leaflet of the DFLP "Red Star", explaining that the murder was carried out in revenge for the shooting of one
of its members by an Israeli citizen. The Israeli acted in self-defense.

Apr 6 94 - Asher Attia, 48, of Afula, bus driver; Vered Mordechai, 13, of Afula; Maya Elharar, 17, of Afula;
Ilana Schreiber, 45, a teacher from Kibbutz Nir David; Meirav Ben-Moshe, 16, of Afula; Ayala Vahaba, 40, a teacher from
Afula; and Fadiya Shalabi, 25, of Iksal were killed in a car-bomb attack on a bus in the center of Afula. HAMAS claimed
responsibility for the attack. Ahuva Cohen Onalla, 37, wounded in the attack, died of her wounds on April 25.

Apr 7 94 - Yishai Gadassi, age 32 of Kvutzat Yavne, was shot and killed at a hitchhiking post at the Ashdod
junction by a member of HAMAS. The terrorist was killed by bystanders at the scene.

Apr 13 94 - Rahamim Mazgauker, 34, of Hadera; David Moyal, 26 of Ramat Gan, an Egged mechanic; Daga Perda, 44, who immigrated from Ethiopia in 1991; Bilha Butin, 49, of Hadera; and Sgt. Ari Perlmutter, 19, of Ir Ovot in the Arava were killed in a suicide bombing attack on a bus in the central bus station of Hadera. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 21 94 - The body of officer cadet Shahar Simani, 20, of Ashkelon, was found stabbed to death near the roadside at the village of Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem. He had been kidnapped while hitchhiking in the south.

May 17 94 - Rafael Yairi (Klumfenbert), 36, of Kiryat Arba, and Margalit Ruth Shohat, 48, of Ma'ale Levona, were killed when their car was fired upon by by terrorists in a passing car near Beit Haggai, south of Hebron.

May 20 94 - Staff Sgt. Moshe Bukra, 30, and Cpl. Erez Ben- Baruch, 24, were shot dead by HAMAS terrorists at a roadblock one kilometer south of the Erez checkpoint in the Gaza Strip.

Jul 7 94 - Sarit Prigal, 17, was shot to death when terrorists opened fire from a passing car near the entrance to Kiryat Arba.

Jul 7 94 - The body of Arye Frankenthal, 20, from Moshav Gimzo near Lod, who had left his base in the south the previous day, was found stabbed and shot near the Arab village of Kafr Akab, near Ramallah.

Jul 19 94 - Lt. Guy Ovadia, 23, of Kibbutz Yotvata, was fatally wounded in an ambush near Rafiah. HAMAS took responsibility for the attack, saying it was "a response to the massacre at the Erez checkpoint".

Jul 25 94 - Border policeman Sgt.- Maj. Jacques Attias, 24, died of his wounds after being shot by Palestinian policemen during the riots at Erez checkpoint on July 17.

Aug 2 94 - Yoram Sakuri, 30, of Kiryat Netafim in Samaria, died of stab wounds suffered when a terrorist broke into his home on July 1st.

Aug 14 94 - Ron Soval, 18, of Lehavim, north of Beersheba, was shot to death in an ambush near Kissufim junction in the Gaza Strip. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 26 94 - Shlomo Kapach, 22, of Holon and Gil Revah, 21, of Bat Yam, elevator technicians, were murdered at a Ramle building site. Israel has requested the extradition of the suspected killers from the Palestinian Authority.

Sep 4 94 - Sgt. Victor Shichman, 24, was killed at the Morag junction in the southern Gaza Strip while on patrol, from shots fired from a vehicle bearing Palestinian license plates.

Sep 94 - Natasha Ivanov, 32, of Ashdod was strangled to death. In March 2001, a Palestinian arrested for being in Israel illegally, admitted to carrying out the murder in order to gain acceptance into a terrorist organization.

Oct 9 94 - Ma'ayan Levy, 19, an off- duty soldier from Moshav Beit Zayit and Samir Mugrabi, 35, from Kafr Akab, in north Jerusalem, were killed in a terrorist attack in the Nahalat Shiva section of downtown Jerusalem. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 14 94 - Cpl. Nahshon Wachsman, 20, who had been abducted by HAMAS, was murdered by his captors. Capt. Nir Poraz, 23, was killed in the course of the unsuccessful IDF rescue operation to obtain his release.

Feb 6 95 - Yevgeny Gromov, 32, of Ashkelon, a security guard, was killed when terrorists opened fire from a passing car on the Gaza bypass road between Jabalya and Gaza City, as he was escorting a gasoline truck to a Gaza Strip filling station.

Mar 19 95 - Nahum Hoss, 32, of Hebron and Yehuda Fartush, 41, of Kiryat Arba, were killed when terrorists fired on an Egged bus near the entrance to Hebron.

Mar 29 95 - Police Insp. Nitzan Cohen, 22, of Jerusalem and Sgt.- Maj. Jamal Suwitat from Makr village in Western Galilee were killed when a Palestinian driver rammed his truck into their jeep in a convoy east of the Netzarim junction in Gaza.

Aug 21 95 - Rivka Cohen, 26, of Jerusalem; Hannah Naeh, 56, of Jerusalem; Joan Davenney, 46, of Connecticut; and Police Chief Superintendent Noam Eisenman, 35, of Jerusalem were killed in a suicide bombing of a Jerusalem bus.Yona Peter Malina, 38, severely wounded, remained paralyzed from the neck down and attached to a respirator. He died on May 30, 2005.

Sep 5 95 - Daniel Frei, 28, of Ma'aleh Michmash, was stabbed to death when a terrorist broke into his home at night.

Jan 16 96 - Sgt. Yaniv Shimel and Major Oz Tibon, both of Jerusalem, were killed when terrorists fired on their car on the Hebron- Jerusalem road.

Jan 30 96 - Staff Sgt. Ehud Tal, 21, of Kibbutz Maoz Haim, was stabbed to death at the liaison office in an army camp south of Jenin.

Jun 16 96 - First- Sgt. Meir Alush, 40, an off- duty policeman, was shot and killed in a toy store in the village of Bidiya.

Jun 26 96 - Staff Sgt. (Res.) Asher Berdugo, 22, of Kiryat Bialik; Sgt. Ashraf Shibli, 20, of Shibli; and Cpl. (Res.) Ya'acov Turgeman of Rishon Lezion were killed in an ambush along the Jordan River north of Jericho by terrorists who infiltrated from Jordan.

Jul 26 96 - Uri Munk, 53, and his daughter- in- law, Rachel Munk, 24, of Moshav Mevo Betar, were killed in a drive- by shooting attack near Beit Shemesh. 30- year- old Ze'ev Munk, Rachel's husband, was critically wounded and died in the hospital the following week.

Dec 11 96 - Etta Tzur, 48, and her son Ephraim, 12, were killed when their car was shot at by terrorists near Surda, west of Beit El.

Mar 21 97 - Michal Avrahami, 32, Yael Gilad, 32, and Anat Winter- Rosen, 32, were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb on the terrace of a Tel Aviv cafe. 48 people were wounded.

Apr 10 97 - The body of IDF Staff- Sgt. Sharon Edri, missing for seven months, was found buried near the West Bank village of Kfar Tzurif. Edri had been kidnapped and murdered by a Hamas terrorist cell in September 1996 while hitchhiking to his home in Moshav Zanoah.

Apr 25 97 - Hagit Zavitzky, 23, of Kfar Adumim and Liat Kastiel, 23, of Holon were found stabbed to death in Wadi Kelt.

Oct 26 98 - Danny Vargas, 29, of Kiryat Arba was shot to death in Hebron.

Oct 29 98 - Sergeant Alexey Neykov, 19, was killed when a terrorist drove an explosives- laden car into an Israeli army jeep escorting a bus with 40 elementary school students from the settlement of Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip.

Jan 13 99 - Sergeant Yehoshua Gavriel, 25, of Ashdod, was killed when terrorists opened fire at the Othniel junction near Hebron.

Aug 7 99 - The body of an Israeli, shot in the head, was found in a burned vehicle.